Analysis of Love And Thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
Two well-assorted travellers use
The highway, Eros and the Muse.
From the twins is nothing hidden,
To the pair is naught forbidden;
Hand in hand the comrades go
Every nook of nature through:
Each for other they were born,
Each can other best adorn;
They know one only mortal grief
Past all balsam or relief,
When, by false companions crossed,
The pilgrims have each other lost.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 0110001 10111010 10111100 101011 10011101 1110101 1110101 11110101 1110101 1110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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